For those who didn't follow the convo on twitter this week, below is a snipped from the New York Times article describing the nature of a food rave:
At this quasi-clandestine monthly event, a tribal gathering of young chefs, vendors and their iron-stomached followers are remaking the traditional farmers market as an indie food rave.The food pods and the food bazaar are proof that Orlando likes indie, off-the-grid, non-traditional food events. So why not put our collective brains together and plan one of these underground food events? The Daily City and Producing LLC would love to be one small cog in the food rave event wheel, one part of a group of local indie media folks that, together as a group, can plan a fun event for the city. Let's do it!
At midnight, the smell of stir-fried pork bellies was wafting through the Mission district. There was live music, liquor, bouncers, a disco ball — and a line waiting to sample hundreds of delicacies made mostly on location, among them bacon-wrapped mochi (a Japanese rice paste) and ice cream made from red beets, Guinness and chocolate cake.
In a sense it is civil disobedience on a paper plate.
The underground market seeks to encourage food entrepreneurship by helping young vendors avoid roughly $1,000 a year in fees — including those for health permits and liability insurance — required by legitimate farmers markets. Here, where the food rave — call it a crave — was born, the market organizers sidestep city health inspections by operating as a private club, requiring that participants become “members” (free) and sign a disclaimer noting that food might not be prepared in a space that has been inspected.
